40,000 Years of Dreaming

40,000 Years of Dreaming (1996)

11/23/1996
67 minutes
6

Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."

Details

Budget

$0

Rating

6/10 (5 votes)

Status

Released

Production Companies

BFI, Kennedy Miller Productions